Douglas Muth on 12 May 2013 15:35:43 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] Looking for System Info Script


On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 6:26 PM, Casey Bralla <MailList@nerdworld.org> wrote:
> I'm looking for a good cross-distro script that will list critical hardware
> and system info for my multiple linux systems.
>
> I want to combine "hwinfo --short" with some type of printout showing which
> distro is being used, and some critical parameters such as the kernel, etc.
> (This means it hs to understand Debian and Gentoo in my case, but ideally
> would be usable on any major distro)
>
> I could make my own, but I figured somebody already came up with such a beast.

You might want to look into the "ohai" component of Chef:

http://docs.opscode.com/ohai.html

-- Doug

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